This is an analysis of the poem Who Can Live In Heart So Glad that begins with:

Who can live in heart so glad
As the merry country lad?... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeebbeeffggeehhiiggjjgg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 30,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1110111 1010101 1010111 1110111 1010101 1010101 111010001 1011111 1010101 1011101 1010101 1000101 1010111 001101 1010101 1110101 1010101 1010101 1010101 1110101 10111010 11100010 10101010 10101110 1011101 00100101 1110101 1010111 0110101 1111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 898
  • Average number of words per stanza: 175
  • Amount of lines: 30
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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